Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-22
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

reunion at st. Louis.
JOHN III. SLADE & Co., insoIvent dry
goods commission merchants of New
York owe $657,97S, with assets of $528,
983.
CALIFORNIA celebrated Friday the
thirty-seventh anniversary of its admis-
sion to the Union.
The estimate yield of wheat in Michi-
gan this season is 22,062,6 $40 bushels. The
total number of bushels reported market
ed to Aug. is 13,806,7OO.
JOHN THOMAS Ross (colored) who killed
Emily Brown, an aged white woman, and
sold her body to a medical college for
$15 was hanged at Baltimore at 12:45 p.
m. Friday.
The election in the Greek Nation took
place Tuesday, the returns indicating the
election as chief of Legus Perryman,
who favors the sale of Oklahoma.
The famous jockey, Ed. West, died at
Saratoga Friday morning. He was in
jrred on the race track Aug. 90.
BISHOP WEAVER convened the annual
conference of the United Brethren church
at Argenta, ILL.,, Wednesday. There are
100 preachers present.
EDWIN GOULD and Sidney Shepherd
were, Wednesday, elected directors of the
Western Union Telegraph company in
place of George D. Morgan and Henry B.
Hyde.
The total -four product Of the Minneap-
oils mills for the week ending Sept. o
was $50, 100 barrels, against 157,400 bar
rels for the previous week and 142, 800 for
the corresponding time in 1886.
j. @. BEARDsLEE, farmer of Rockford,
Mich, died of hydrophobia, Wednesday
He was bitten by mad dog several years
ago, and experienced no trouble with the
wound until Monday.
The steel stern post and stem of the
new government cruiser now being built
at San Francisco have been cast. The
stem weighs 10000 pounds, and is said to
be the largest casting ever made in
America.
THE chief clerk of the Superior Court
of New York Monday rejected the appli-
cation of Johann Most, the anarchist, to
become citizen. Most said he would
appeal to the courts.
Confession has been made by Charles P.
Ide, bookkeeper of the First National
Bank, of Glens Falls, n. z, that during
1880, 1881 and 1882 he embezzled SIS, 100.
He was an officer of the Baptist Sunday
school.
The desert blossoms. Grapes and
fruit are shipped in large quantities from
Arizona and New Mexico. Las Cruces,
N. NJ, ships about 1000 pounds of grapes
daily to eastern and western markets.
THERE are thirty five Washoe Indians
now in the California hop-felds. A large
crowd of Digger Indians are also at work.
The Washoes like the work and say they
will go home with "heaps of money"
ABRAHAM BURBANK, OF Pittsfeld, Mass,
aged IS years, fell about thirty feet from
a scaffold on one of his buildings, strik-
ing on his head and shoulders. He was
considerably Jared, but the next morn
ing was at work apparently none the
worse for his big drop.
SUIT for divorce has been brought at
New York by Mrs. Grace Dalton Terry
against her husband, Antonio E. Terry,
son of a deceased Cuban planter, who
left an estate worth $5O,OOO,OOO. Mrs.
Dalton complains that her husband spends
too much of his time in the society of
actresses.
CONFERENCE of representatives of the
Standard Oil Company and indepen-
dent producers was held Monday to con-
slider the advisability Of shutting down all
the wells in the country for the purpose
of restricting the production. Many of
the best known oil men in the country
were in attendance.
The safe of the County Treasury at
Ohio, was found open Monday
morning and large amount of money is
County Treasurer Simon aud
his son were arrested, the father being
charged with embezzling $4,000, and
the boy with the larceny of $4,000.
Both waived examination and gave bail.
Simon's shoe store has also been closed
by the Sheriff. The new County Treas
urer was to assume charge Monday and
Simon claims the safe was rified by rob
bers.